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laid by one hundred of it when a severe illness put an end to his efforts.
After many prayers and much consideration of the matter, his feeble old wife said to him one day, “Paul, I'm a gwine up to New York myself to see if I can't get that money.”
Her husband objected that she was too feeble, that she would be unable to find her way, and that Northern people had got tired of buying slaves to set them free, but the resolute old woman clung to her purpose and finally set forth.
Reaching New York she made her way to Mr. Beecher's house, where she was so fortunate as to find Mrs. Stowe.
Now her troubles were at an end, for this champion of the oppressed at once made the slave woman's cause her own and promised that her children should be redeemed.
She at once set herself to the task of raising the purchase-money, not only for Milly's children, but for giving freedom to the old slave woman herself.
On May 29, she writes to her husband in Brunswick:--
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